The phrase "amount to a wide" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "The changes in policy amount to a wide range of implications for the industry."
Alternatives: "result in a broad" or "equate to a vast".
A 10% levy on the largest corporations would raise around £10bn, enough to pay each household in receipt of tax credit – a mix of the unemployed and those on the lowest earnings – more than £2,000 (or a smaller amount to a wider group of benefit recipients).
Osborne's speech amounted to a wide-ranging bid for support from voters who had previously supported the Labour party.
Minecraft sets you loose in what amounts to a wide-open virtual wilderness — rendered in 1980s-style blocky graphics — and allows you to build your own hovel, home or castle.
Though the stated focus is the death of Dr. Kelly and whether public pressures drove him to take his life, the hearings are amounting to a wider examination of the government's credibility and the conduct and standards of the BBC, the world's best known public broadcaster.
Before patting itself on the back for rescuing a mere several thousand Yazidis from genocide, let us not forget that this White House has declared "mission accomplished" and has not thrown the same passion against the daily massacres that are taking place that amount to a region-wide genocide against these other minorities.
The Guardian has also learned that the Department for Education is investigating options to radically restructure Birmingham's state schools in what would amount to a sweeping, city-wide shake-up of England's largest local authority.
On top of that concession, the U.S. government hasn't moved to revoke Credit Suisse's American banking license, despite Attorney General Eric Holder, in announcing the guilty plea, saying that the wrongdoing amounted to "an extensive and wide-ranging conspiracy".
Yet making what amounts to a very wide, sheetlike vacuum chamber is difficult, because over a large area air pressure will tend to crush together the two sides of the screen.
It was the most remarkable demonstration so far of artistic director Damian Cruden's achievement in establishing what now amounts to a city-wide, standing repertory company of 200-plus incredibly dedicated people.
This presents us with the intriguing prospect that more of the circumstances of everyday urban life might be managed this way, on a participatory basis, by autonomous neighbourhood groups networked with one another in something amounting to a city-wide federation.
